Apparatus for the generation of power.



No. 865,720. PATENTED SEPT, 10, 1907.

A. MOGARTHY.

APPARATUS FOR THE GENERATION OF POWER. APPLICATION FILED 00112. 1905.

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No. 865,720. PATENTED SEPTJO, 1907. A. MOGARTHY.

APPARATUS FOR THE GENERATION ()F POWER. APPLICATION FILED 00112. 1905.

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n: Numus psrzns can, wasumaron a c ALEXANDER MCCARTHY, OF NEW YORK, N.Y.

APPARATUS FOR THE GENERATION OF POWER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 10, 1907.

Application filed October 12,1905. Serial No. 282,395.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALEXANDER MCCARTHY, a citizen of the United States,residing at New York, county and State of New York, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Apparatus for the Generation ofPower, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to apparatus for generation of power, andparticularly for the storage of compressed air.

The object of the invention is to provide apparatus which may beinexpensively constructed and operated and which will serve to compressair economically and without complicated mechanism.

The apparatus herein shown consists of a great many parts but theprinciples of the invention are of a simple nature and will be readilyunderstood from the drawings and the following specification. Briefly,the invention may be said to comprise the employment of a series oftubular air compressors arranged around the sides of a boat and adaptedwhen the boat is rocked in the water to compress air which is conveyedthrough suitable pipes or conduits to a storage tank or reservoir eitheron the boat or on land.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a boat or vessel with laterallyarranged air compressors embodying the improvements of my invention.Fig. 2 is an end view of the boat, with the end compressors removed.Fig. 3 is a view of one of the exterior air compressors. Fig. 4 is alongitudinal section thereof. Fig. 5 is a plan view thereof. Fig. 6 is aplan view of the inlet valve therefor. k

1 indicates a boat having a suitably shaped hul adapted for the peculiarpurposes of this invention. It should be particularly full in theunderbody so as to have a very stable equilibrium. It is preferablysquare in the stem and stern so as to accommodate the series of aircompressors all around the sides.

2 indicates one of the exteriorly arranged air compressors which aretubular in form and preferably round at the top and expanding into' aflattened shape at the bottom.

3 is a step projecting from the side of the boat.

4 is a notch in the bottom of the compressor tube in which the step 3fits, when the compressor is in place, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2.

5 is a side arm pivoted at its lower end to the step 3.

6 is a rope or chain secured to the arm and passing over the ears 77 onthe sides of the compressor tubes 2. The inner end of the rope 6 isattached to a pivoted lever 8 on the interior of the boat, which leveris adapt ed to be caught under one of a series of pins or notches on acleat 9, so that the lever 8 may be held in place with such tensionasmay be desired upon the rope 6, for holding the compressor 2 in positionto resist the upward pressure of the water when the boat is rocked orthe water rises relatively to it, as for instance in rough weather.

10 represents one of a series of air inlets at the top of the compressorarranged around the outlet tip 11.

12 is a pipe, conduit or tube secured to the outlet tip 11 and leadingto a storage reservoir such as R either in the boat or on land.

13 is a valve on the interior of the compressor provided for the inlets10.

14 is a ball-valve for the outlet tip 11.

15 is a cross piece arranged in the central aperture of the valve 13.

16 is a flexible member connecting the inlet and outlet valves.

When no pressure is exerted in the interior of the compressor, the valve14 is closed by the pressure in the conduit 12 and the inlet valve 13 issuspended therefrom. When pressure is increased in the compressor 2 theinlet valve 13 is closed. When the pres sure is then increasedsufliciently the valve 14 is raised from its seat and the air forcedfrom the compressor into the conduit and connected reservoir.

It will be obvious that many changes may be made in the details ofconstruction and in the arrangement of parts without departing from thespirit or scope of my invention.

What I claim is:

1. Apparatus for the compression or air, comprising a floating vessel,:1 series of compressing members arranged around the sides or thevessel, having their open lower ends immersed in the water, inlet andoutlet valves for said compressing members, a reservoir and connectionsto said compressing member for the purpose specified.

2 An air compressing device for the purpose specified, comprising atubular member adapted to have one end immersed in the water, an outlettip, a series of air inlets arranged around said tip, a valve on theinner side of said member for said inlets, and an outlet valve for saidtip connected to said inlet valve.

3. A device for the compression otair having a series of air inlets andan air outlet, a valve for said air inlets, and a valve for said airoutlets, and a flexible connection between said outlet valve and saidinlet valve.

4. In an apparatus for the compression of air, the combinntion of avessel. a series of air compressing members arranged along the sidesthereof having their lower ends immersed and means for mechanicallyrocking the vessel for the purpose specified.

5. In an apparatus for the compression of air, the comlower endsimmersed in the water, means for mechanically 1O bination of a boat,compressing members arranged along rocking the boat, a series of aircompressing devices car the outer sides thereof, and havingtheir lowerends imried by said boat arranged to be operated by said rocking mersedin the Water, an oscillating cylinder carried by means a reservoir andconnection with said compressing said boat, arranged transverselythereof, and containing members and with said compressing devices.

a fluid, and means for oscillating said cylinder. ALEXANDER MCCARTHY.

6. An apparatus for the compression of air, comprising Witnesses: thecombination of a boat, a series of compressing mem- ALEXANDER MCCARTHY,.Tr.,

bers arranged along the sides thereof and having their 1 ROBT. S. ALLYN.

